Oracle Forms
I recently gave a presentation on “Oracle Forms” – a feature
of the Oracle developer suite which helps GUI designers to quickly design
screens to facilitate easy insertion, deletion, update and query of tables in a
database.
The third years were asked to learn about Oracle forms for
their final examination. I decided to take this opportunity to talk about it.
Oracle Forms runs on Java containers and the GUI is presented
in the form of Java applets to the user. The Java container is known as “Oracle
Container for Java (OC4J)” in the Oracle Forms architecture.
The presentation was given on 21st October which
was followed by a live demo which emphasized how an Oracle form is created and
how is it run with the help of Java containers.
The presentation covered the following topics –
- Introduction to Oracle Forms
- Oracle Forms Architecture
- Single Block Forms
- Master Detail Forms
- List Of Values
- Non-base table fields
- Triggers
- Troubleshooting
The presentation was followed by live demos covering –
- Single Block Forms
- Master Detail Forms
- List Of Values
The session concluded with emphasize on technologies like
JSPs, Servlets, JDBC, etc. which are swiftly replacing Oracle Forms because of
their customizability.
As the target audience for the presentation was primarily the
third year students, we had around 40 students participating in the presentation.
Check out the photos at –
http://picasaweb.google.com/osum.source/OracleForms#
